Stamp v. Commonwealth

*136Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson

Affirming.

At twilight on a June evening in 1922, J. Smith Russell, with his wife and infant daughter, was motoring north oil Third street boulevard in Jefferson county when appellant, Walter P. Stamp, also in an automobile, approached from the rear, crowded the Russell car to the sidewalk and fired five shots into the Russell car, killing J. Smith Russell instantly and wounding Mrs. Russell in the head so that she lost one eye, and slightly injuring the infant daughter, who was on the rear seat, and then dashed away in his car leaving his victims to…